Parliament on the Air

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 183, 1 May 1936, Page 15

Parliament on the Air

Sir,- -I beg space on which to ease my feelings. The Labour Party professes to be very anxious that there should be a radio set in every home. I imagine it is to enable listeners to hear their. members’ perpetual interjections, thus ‘ preventing listeners from hearing the Opposition's views. It appears to me that the Labour Party is out to have everything conceivable,’ be it pastime or work, compulsorily carried out in the manner which it thinlis right, and will probably want to issue an inspector with each radio license to make sure that listeners tune in to its members' interjections.—l am, etc., , MUFFLER. , Mangataiuoka, April 25. Sir, —Your correspondent, “Subscriber” is entitled to hii’ (or her) opinion on the question of Parliamentary broadcasts, but to draw a comparison with the process of organic digestion is a bit “over the fence.” In passing, may 1 suggest that if “Subscriber” were to pay a little more attention to the “disgusting details”: of the important business of aforemen-| tioned digestion, either human or poli-‘ tieal, some startling revelations would be-; come manifest? Seeing that half the world to-day is paying a lot of money in the quest for satisfactory aids to human digestion, and the other half is endeavouring to find the money to secure food to digest, it seems the whole world is interested in the “painful intermediate stages” not favoured by your correspondent, who would believe it possible that anybody with an interest in the Dominion could really be more interested in “some good music” and “a talk on foreign affairs” than the most far-reaching legislation perhaps ever introduced in the history of New Zealand? I must register an emphatic protest at the tone of “Subscriber’s” letter and beg to submit that practically every listener in the country is in favour of Parliament being on the air all the time.—l am. etc., INTERESTED. Wanganui, April 28.